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6 Installation Guide for Avid Editing Applications
Before Installing the Avid Editing Application
Read through the following procedures prior to installing the editing application.
Procedures are provided for upgrade customers or new users. Choose the
applicable procedure for your installation:
New Users
If you are a new user and have never installed the editing application on your
system, follow the instructions from page 6 to page 19. Start with “Installing the
Avid Editing Application” on page 6.
Existing Users
If you are upgrading from a previous version of the editing application, you must
uninstall the previous version before installing and activating the new software.
n Before you uninstall your Avid editing application, write down your System ID.
You will need your old System ID to activate your new software.
Follow the instructions from page 20 to page 29. Start with “Upgrading the Avid
Editing Application” on page 20.
Installing the Avid Editing Application
For all Avid editing applications, log in as a user with administrative privileges,
install the application, and initially start the application as a user with
administrative privileges. If you are working in a shared storage environment,
mount your workspaces. You may then subsequently run the Avid editing
application as a regular User.
n Installing the editing application software might take some time. For the
individual editing application, it might take 5 to 15 minutes to install. Installing
the entire editing application suite might take up to 35 minutes to install.